India - Participation in Education, July 1995 - July 1996, NSS 52nd Round

Reference ID

IND-MOSPI-NSSO-NSS-52-25.2-1995-V2.

Year

1995 - 1996

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - NSSO

Sponsor(s)

Govt. Of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Age at entry at school (AGE_AT_SCHOOL_ENTRY)
File: BLOCK 4 Education particulars...

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0

Valid cases: 91728
Invalid: 583
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 21
Mean: 5.5
Standard deviation: 1

Definition

age at entry at school

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Age at entry at school

Categories

Value	Cases
0	8	0.0%
1	100	0.1%
2	47	0.1%
3	1299	1.4%
4	5379	5.9%
5	42547	46.4%
6	31801	34.7%
7	7112	7.8%
8	2401	2.6%
9	601	0.7%
10	293	0.3%
11	53	0.1%
12	52	0.1%
13	16	0.0%
14	6	0.0%
15	9	0.0%
16	2	0.0%
19	1	0.0%
21	1	0.0%
Sysmiss	583

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

Age at entry at school is the age in completed years, at which the person started attending the primary level class. Generally this will be the age at which the child is admitted to class I. In many states there is a minimum age prescribed for admission to class I. However the age is to be recorded as ascertained from the informant.